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TikTok is moving into luxury retail, part of an effort to expand its TikTok Shop marketplace into a high-end shopping destination for purses and watches that can fetch thousands of dollars.

A new feature on X has revealed that some influencers who claim to be U.S.-based culture warriors actually live outside the country.

Malaysia plans to ban social media accounts for children under 16 starting next year to protect them from online harm, joining a similar crackdown in Australia.

Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

The original Nano Banana rolled out in August and went viral in a social media trend that turned selfies into 3D figurines.

Chinese technology powerhouses are beginning to reap early returns from their heavy investments in artificial intelligence, with quarterly results showing the impact across businesses from short video platforms like Kuaishou Technology to social media giants like Tencent Holdings. Kuaishou, China’s second-largest short video app and rival to TikTok’s Chinese sibling Douyin, was the latest to highlight gains from AI adoption. The company, in an earnings statement on Wednesday, attributed its...

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A Chinese investment firm bought a block of ByteDance Ltd. shares at a valuation of $480 billion, far above recent levels, a sign of strong investor interest in the parent company of video sensation TikTok.

Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.,and John Curtis, R-Utah, want to hold social media companies accountable for the negative impacts their algorithms have on people. They spoke to NPR about their bill.

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Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving the company, marking an end of an era of pioneering computer science research at the Facebook parent.

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Meta Platforms Inc. warned of significant difficulties identifying and removing underage users as it prepares to comply with Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s next month.

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Facebook parent company Meta Platforms defeated a US attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp on Tuesday when a federal judge ruled the company did not hold a social media monopoly. The ruling gives Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in US President Donald Trump’s first term, and is a major setback for the Federal Trade Commission, which is pursuing a separate antitrust case against Amazon.com. The agency sought to force Meta to...

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Meta has won its case against the Federal Trade Commission, seven months after the trial began.

Meta Platforms Inc. won a key lawsuit Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law.

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving the social networking leader, one of several leadership changes at a company under pressure to deliver on a costly AI strategy.

A federal judge ruled against the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust suit alleging that Meta had stifled competition by buying up its rivals.

A major outage on the network of cybersecurity firm Cloudflare Inc. was resolved after disrupting websites ranging from X to ChatGPT around the globe for several hours on Tuesday.

Telegram billionaire Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov’s travel ban has been fully lifted by French authorities investigating him over his messaging platform.

Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted a faster-than-anticipated 15% rise in revenue, sustaining the steady growth that’s helped the social media leader attract investors despite eschewing splashy investments in AI infrastructure.

A former research scientist at Meta Platforms, Tian Yuandong, has shed some light on the US social media giant’s restructuring of its artificial intelligence team, while casting doubt on traditional scaling laws used in AI model development. In an interview on the Chinese video channel Silicon Valley 101 broadcast on Wednesday, Tian – previously research scientist director at Meta FAIR, the Facebook parent’s legacy Fundamental AI Research team – said limited computing resources had triggered...

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Meta Platforms Inc.’s messaging service WhatsApp will face stricter rules under the European Union’s content moderation rulebook, as the bloc increases scrutiny of social media.

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